PugSki Academy?

[Monique]

I never had a chance to participate in an ESA, but it sounds like a lot of people benefited from it and still talk about it to this day.

Might there be any chance of a PugSki Academy?

 

[Read Blinn]

+1 on that!

 

[SBrown]

My instinct says that the same things that doomed the Epic Ski Academy would prevent a pugski Academy, but I will defer to others on that one.

 

[Read Blinn]

My instinct says that the same things that doomed the Epic Ski Academy would prevent a pugski Academy, but I will defer to others on that one.

Was the problem, as I suspect, resort interference?

 

[SBrown]

I think it was mostly $$$.

 

[cantunamunch]

I think it was mostly $$$.

Are you sure that wasn't 4 $s?

 

[Kneale Brownson]

Primarily it was an insurance issue. The coverage required by any resort for an independent vendor (ESA charged attendees to cover basic costs) to provide instruction on its terrain was too expensive to make it viable.

 

[Philpug]

Could a PSA happen? It has been discussed and is a possibility, but it might be a couple of seasons away.

 

[margaritamarcia]

Are you sure that wasn't 4 $s?

The costs for ESA were extraordinarily affordable given the caliber of coaching. It was an insurance/liability issue originating from the resorts' not covering liability. ESA was GREAT.

 

[RachelV]

The costs for ESA were extraordinarily affordable given the caliber of coaching. It was an insurance/liability issue originating from the resorts' not covering liability. ESA was GREAT.

I first met @Tricia (And you! And a bunch of others...) at ESA Stowe in maybe... 2009? I'd love to be able to attend something like that again.

 

[cantunamunch]

I first met @Tricia (And you! And a bunch of others...) at ESA Stowe in maybe... 2009? I'd love to be able to attend something like that again.

I thought you were at the 2006 one - brown longsleeve shirts?

 

[SKI-3PO]

Still have my shirts...wow, they're old...wow, I'm old.

 

[KingGrump]

saw this on a fb post today.

It's kinda funny how being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old.

 

[RachelV]

I thought you were at the 2006 one - brown longsleeve shirts?

Definitely not 2006... I'm sorry to say that internet ski forums were not part of my life until 2007/8.

 

[Chris Geib]

The costs for ESA were extraordinarily affordable given the caliber of coaching... ESA was GREAT.

I always thought so!

I first met @Tricia (And you! And a bunch of others...)...

Yes, I know you and almost everyone in this thread either from ESAs and/or a gathering of one sort or another. Great adventures and memories

Will you be making it up mid week during the season????




Good luck with the PSA development!

 

[Philpug]

In (and when) a PSA happens....well...we are working on it.

 

[cantunamunch]

In (and when) a PSA happens....well...we are working on it.

There will be a Public Service Announcement?

 

[Drahtguy Kevin]

There will be a Public Service Announcement?

Yes. "Friends don't let friends ride snowboards."

 

[Living Proof]

When the Epic Gathering was in Tahoe the year P&T married, Bob Barnes and Bud Heshman conducted a 2 day instructional program at a pretty reasonable cost. I think the only way that a future Pugski Academy can work financially is for the students to get to an area where the instructors work and can assemble an instruction team. I know there is a thread about getting instruction during the upcoming Aspen Gathering. In part, one reason the ESA's worked was it was easy for us eastern skiers to get to Stowe so there is a greater pool of locals. I also think that having an instructional program in December was a draw as we are just getting back on skis. When we eastern folks get to big mountains, it's hard to justify a 2 day program when the lure of skiing calls.

Even without insurance issues, the students have to cover the airfare, ground-transport, lodging, food, lift tickets and instructor compensation, assuming a 5 person group. That does not include costs P&T would have to bear, or be reimbursed for, for their participation. Financial responsibility is a tough fact of life. But, dream the dream and maybe it will come to be.

 

[Erik Timmerman]

I'm in.